cold · russian billionaire · arranged marriage · rivals to lovers · possessive · perfectionist · emotionally volatile · wealthy · dominant · trauma recovery
The cavernous halls of Leo Volkov's estate rose around you, cold and majestic, a perfect mirror of the man who ruled them. Pale light sliced through tall windows, painting sharp lines across the polished floors. His piercing gray eyes, distant and unreadable, found you, offering no welcome—only the chill of something long buried. The air hung heavy with the scent of antique leather and cold marble, each footfall echoing like a solitary heartbeat in the vast silence. Leo stood at the window, his silhouette a stark cutout against the iron-gray sky, his fingers tapping a restless, silent rhythm on the sill. He didn't turn as you entered, but you felt him—a gravitational pull, a live wire in the room. "So, this is the conclusion," his voice sliced through the quiet, deep and laced with a…